What's the recent knife trend?

The overall trend is mostly "expensive" and mostly novelty- and cosmetically-driven. I've been getting less and less impressed with each new year's offerings lately but perhaps part of that is I'm getting a bit jaded. :D Still lots of performance based designs on the market but they sure are getting lost in a sea of $500 knives that from a thumbnail view look like they could be fantasy designs from China. :p
 
LukeTheSpook said:
Uber expensive hand made bushcraft knives. Very simple designs and long waiting lists to get them, creating an aftermarket for $500 scandi grind high carbon steel users.
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Really that goes back to Mors Kochanski years ago. Nothing new about that.

I'm thinking more higher quality Chinese made knives, but that may already even be old news. Possibly knives from other emerging markets? Brazil, Russia, India, South Africa?
 
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I noticed, with the way things are going in the world (raising tensions between nations,races, religions,etc) a lot of people start to preparing themselves for the worst scenario and start demanding more and more survival stuff, such as bushcraft and tough fixed blade knives,,,, especially bushcraft ones I noticed are becoming trend more than ever before,,,, but there is still a lot folding knives within favourite type as pocket edc's.
 
Well I'm attempting to start a trend toward sanity and grace . . . as the song says.

For me that means a serious handle, not thin flat slabs and a decently long blade 3.5 to 4 inch but quite thin,

I recently ground this Ti Lite nice and thin 2mm at the back and took the behind the sharpening bevel thickness down by half to 0.5 mm. Could be thinner but I don't have the talent that takes.

Just a matter of time before it catches on like legal weed and everyone goes for it like a pack of rats.

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The trend I seem to be seeing more is rather odd looking blade shapes with multiple grinds

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^ +1 which I hate;except for the tighe rade; theres also been a trend of higher price tags on many knives,as well as new makers coming out of the woodwork with introductory high prices,too.
 
goldie said:
^ +1 which I hate;except for the tighe rade; theres also been a trend of higher price tags on many knives,as well as new makers coming out of the woodwork with introductory high prices,too.
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Oh god, this. Like, hey man, I appreciate the skill it takes to make a nice knife but don't roll out with your first design, made of something like D2, S30v, or 154cm, and be like "Yeah, I'm going to need $500+" Sorry man, I'm not paying that.

I have watched some guys pop up on some other forums/places and ask these prices, with ad-copy talking about unique features this, and special materials that with a dash of "OMG Navy SEAL SWAT SpecOps dudes carry our knives!" sprinkled in...when their knife looks just like an ESEE 6 or whatever. Ha, no. I'll just buy the ESEE 6 and call it a day. :D
 
Folding knives that aren't meant to cut anything, but instead used to bludgeon the #%{* out of what you may think you want to cut.
 
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Current big names charging $300+ for knives that use D2, 1084/1095, or other "run of the mill" alloys...

I dunno, if I am going to drop (what I consider) significant coin on a knife, I don't want D2, 1084, et al...
 
NJBillK said:
Current big names charging $300+ for knives that use D2, 1084/1095, or other "run of the mill" alloys...

I dunno, if I am going to drop (what I consider) significant coin on a knife, I don't want D2, 1084, et al...
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I would take a D2 knife from any high end maker. I find D2 to be a better cutter than either S30V or S35N. A Sebenza in D2 would be the perfect knife for me.
 
If I am looking for a carbide rich alloy, I would look towards m390 (or variation), 10V, m4, et al.

For the most part, I was speaking of fixed blades, but there are some makers that are strict adherents to D2 and I will normally look in another direction.
 
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